Friday Favorites

Friday Favorites #1

A few things I came across this week that I loved.

Quotes

"Our roots stretch back to blue-green algae; they stretch to the stars. They ultimately reach the void." -Joan Halifax

"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic - the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone." -Charles de Lint

"The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind."

-Katherine Mansfield

"She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs—pansies and rosemary—and a sweet lover who would swing dance with her in the evenings and cook pasta and read poetry aloud." -Francesca Lia Block

Poetry

The light has changed; middle C is tuned darker now. And the songs of morning sound over-rehearsed. —

This is the light of autumn, not the light of spring. The light of autumn: you will not be spared.

-From October by Louise Gluck

Silence itself is strategy, a signed language, gorgeous, fluid in the hands of those who learned it in childhood.

-From Gretel by Mary Jo Bang

Art

The Dream, Frida Kahlo